Motor Or Skating Cap- Knitted Or Crocheted-1913

Motor Or Skating Cap- Knitted Or Crocheted- PATTERN  OF 1913

Designed by Helen Marvin 

THE great charm of articles knitted or of Angora wool lies their soft, furry beauty.Angora knits much more quickly than other wools, because a fine stitch rarely is used, and a complicated one never, the beauty of the finished product depending not upon the stitch, but upon the texture. The model illustrated upon this page  may be developed in a few hours time.. 

 The cap for motoring also may either be knitted, or crocheted and while it is illustrated in the size to a grown person, it may be made in any other. Its novelty lies in the fact that while it is a cap, it may be pulled on over the head, without being fastened, it has an extra lap which offers the protection to back of the neck, which only a hood ordinarily gives. 

KNITTED CAP

In adult size the knitted cap needs one ounce of each gray and white Angora wool. a pair of No 2 bone knitting needles and a bone crochet hook No 2. Before beginning the work proper, make a small sample to be used for measurement as follows:

Cast on twenty stitches, and knit two, purl two, for about two inches. Bind off loosely. stitches and knit two purl two for about two inches Bind off loosely Using this sample compute the number of stitches necessary for a width, sufficient to reach around the face from the back of one ear to the back of the other ear. The knitting must be stretched when measured. of the other The knitting must be stretched when measured. For the cap illustrated, sixty-four stitches were cast on with the white wool. On these stitches knit two, purl two, row after row until the knitting is long enough measured loosely without stretching, to reach to the center of the crown. This length is seven inches in the model cap. Bind off as tightly as possible to draw the ribs of edge in. 

Make another strip of knitting the same way, but with enough stitches in its width to reach around the back of the head, from one ear to the other. In the model cap thirty-two stitches were cast on for this part. Knit two, purl two, for the same length as the front part, and again bind off tightly for the crown center. 

With the gray wool now pick up stitch in each of the cast-on stitches of each section, and on these stitches knit in plain garter stitches for three inches. Bind off loosely and on the back section sew the stitches of the last row against the stitches of the first gray row.

Now overhand the two sections together along the edges of the white rows. The gray band is turned back over the front, and the ends of it are sewed down on the seams which join the two sections together.  

To close the center of crown use the gray wool. Make five chain stitches. join in ring, chain three and eighteen double crochet in ring.Join. 

Third Round 

One single crochet in first stitch, two double crochet in each of the next two stitches, repeat from *all around and at the end join, and fasten off. Now gather the bound off edges of the white knitting on a strong thread draw up as tightly as possible, and sew over the opening the thread the crochetted medaillon,  just made, slip-stitching it down. 

CROCHETED CAP

If the cap is to be crocheted instead of knitted, about two ounces of white and one ounce of the gray wool are required and a bone crochet hook No 2.

 Begin with a chain seven inches long, or enough to reach from the forehead to the center of the crown. Use the white wool and work back and forth in single crochet, picking up the stitches on the back thread, until enough has been worked to reach around the head. Overhand the last row to the first. Now measure off along one edge the distance from one ear to the other, across the back of the head. On this section of edge, work back and forth with the gray wool, in single crochet picked up on the double thread, until the band is three inches deep. Fasten off and sew the last row against the first. 

Make a band along the remainder of the edge in the same way, turn back over the white crochet, tack down the ends, then gather the edge for the center of the crown and cover it with the crocheted medallion as explained for the knitted cap. 

REFERENCES:

Ladies Home Companion 1913